Web 2.0 Storytellin

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ELI Annual Conference

January 28, 2008Bryan Alexander,

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What's web 2.0 about?

Quick recap• Microcontent• Social software• Multiply

authored content– within content– located

externally

• Perpetual beta• Boundaries can

be hard to find• All issues still on

the table

Platforms

Blogosphere and character“As one day’s posts build on points raised

or refuted in a previous day’s, readers must actively engage the process of “discovering” the author, and of parsing from fragment after fragment who is speaking to them, and why, and from where whether geographically, mentally, politically, or otherwise.”-Steve Himmer, “The Labyrinth Unbound”

(2003)

Platforms

Blogosphere and time“You know what's funny? I bet if I posted

this email message on my blog, as a story, I'd get two dozen emails from readers — the ones who know how clueless I can be — telling me to get a clue, that you're obviously taking someone else. A bagel.”

-Postmodern Sasshttp://www.postmodernsass.com/blogger/2005/04/my-baby-she-wrote-me-letter.html

Blog as story diary

Or several blogs: Dionaea House and Loreen Mathers (http://www.dionaea-house.com/default.htm)

“The LiveJournal of Zachary Marsh”

Blog as story diary

Futureblogging: “Harvey Feldspar's Geoblog”

(http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/local)

-Bruce Sterling, Wired, 2007

Bookblogginghttp://www.pulsethebook.com/ - “networked

book” (Institute for the Future of the Book)

And others http://simonofspace.blogspot.com/

Bookblogging"a networked book is

an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.“ (IFTFTB)

• See also Googlization of Everything and Flightpaths (http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/ and http://www.flightpaths.net/blog/index.php/about/ )

Republish content via blog

• Pedagogy• Social

feedback• Publicity

• Pepys Diary• Dracula

Blogged• Ulysses and

da Vinci per day (http://wwar1.blogspot.com/)

Bookblogging

Extended networks

• Support wikis (example: Pynchon)

• William Gibson lost his Node

(http://www.nodemagazine.com/)

MicrobloglosphereTwitter: a

single narrative

• Good Captain

http://twitter.com/goodcaptain

http://loose-fish.com/

Microbloglosphere

Twitter: aphorisms

Jenny Holzer

http://twitter.com/jennyholzer

Microbloglosphere

Twitter: class en masse

http://twitter.com/manyvoices

WikistorytellingThe Penguin novel

(http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)

Wikistorytelling

Can a collective create a believable fictional voice? How does a plot find any sort of coherent trajectory when different people have a different idea about how a story should end – or even begin? And, perhaps most importantly, can writers really leave their egos at the door?

“About”,http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/About

Social slides

Barbara Ganley, “Into the Storm” (2007)

(http://www.slideshare.net/bgblogging/intothestorm

http://bgexperiments.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/into-the-storm/ )

Embedded within Slideshare Web platform apparatus

Embedded within blog

Social photo storiesFlickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group

Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories

Social photo stories

Social photo stories

Flickr, Tell A Story in Five Frames group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/)

Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories

Example: "Food to Farm", Eli the Bearded (2008)

Social photo stories

Pedagogies:• Remix• Archive work• Social

presentation• Visual

literacy

(http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/discuss/72157603786255599/;http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ )

Social photosSocial image hypertext: Mission stencil story

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/9793231@N05/sets/72157600706628117/)

Social photo storytelling pedagogy:

USF digital journalism class (David Silver)

(http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2007/02/digital-journalism-flickr-project.html)

Social photos

PedagogyShifting work

across venues

• Archiving• Personal and

private

(http://usfblogtastic.blogspot.com/)

Storytelling by podcast

The Yellow Sheet, by Librivox team (2007)

• Text then podcast• http://librivox.org/

the-yellow-sheet-by-librivox-volunteers/

• More: Podiobooks, http://www.podiobooks.com/

Web video storytellingConnect with I

(http://www.connectwithi.com/)

• Serial video• Fan content• Physical

content

Web video storytelling

lonelygirl15 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15)

• YouTube serial video content• Local fan content• Distributed response• Hoax plot

Storytellerster

MySpace, Facebook as platform• Example: Silver Ladder

(Two of Clubs character on Myspace)

Untapped or supplementary?Folksonomies?

for description: http://www.pulsethebook.com/

ManyEyes http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes

Untapped or supplementary?Social Bookmarking:

supplementary?• Wrangle information about Web 2.0

storytelling

Multiplicity of platforms

Actually, none exist in isolation• some projects are based in

multiple platforms• aura of social interaction based

wherever people feel like it• can start in one, then expand

Multiplicity of platforms

New forms combining categories into one?

Voicethread Storybox

(http://www.story-box.co.uk/index.php)

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